ABSTRACT
Nietzsche's plan for a revaluation of all values is well known. It was conceived as a "naturalization of morality," that is, as an attempt to replace all moral values with naturalistic ones. The compilers of The Will to Power believed that this idea was revolutionary and published some of the items mentioned in the plan under the heading: "fundamental innovations." Restoration-ethics goes on with business as usual in just the same way as the standard metaphysical interpretation of Nietzsche in which the "will to power." The name for Nietzsche's central transcendental-logical principle or elliptical statement about the conditions of experiencing and knowing what is the case, is mistaken for the name of a cosmic "force" and for a true statement about reality "in itself. The idea of a naturalistic morality, in the sense of Emerson and sociobiology, is an attempt to shake off this burden by looking for directives in the tendencies and propensities of natural drives.
